A blog theme is made from a collection
of templates that
control the look of the blog. You can customize theme templates and
save a new theme for a blog.
Before you begin
You
must be a blog owner or administrator to edit blog templates.Important: Blog-level customization is turned off by default.
If you enable this feature and allow users to customize their blog
templates, the end user is then responsible for updating the templates
following a migration. Some customized templates may not work after
migration.
About this task
You can edit the templates that
define the layout, colors
and fonts of your blog. Before you can edit the templates for the
theme, you must choose to customize the theme. Customizing theme templates
involves editing the source HTML for the template files. You should
only do this if you are comfortable editing HTML files.Restriction: Only modification to the HTML is supported. Do
not change any calls that retrieve data from the blog system or your
blog may fail to work.
Procedure
- From the My
Blogs page, click Settings for
the blog you want to customize.
Note: If you are the Blogs
site administrator and want to edit the theme for the Blogs home page,
find the blog which serves as Blogs Homepage on the Site Settings
section, on the Configuration page of the Administration tab. You
can customize the theme for the home page in the same way you customize
the theme for any blog.
- Click Theme.
- Choose the theme you want to customize and click Customize.
The templates for that theme are now available for you
to edit from the Templates page. Note that
the Customize button is only available if the Allow
custom themes setting is enabled for the site.
- Click Templates.
The
templates for the current blog display.
- Click Edit to
modify a template.
See the examples for guidelines about
how to make common customization
changes.
- Save changes you make to the template.
- Click Remove to remove a
template.
You cannot delete a required template.